Barbara Walters Is Spilling All the Secrets From Her Time on The View

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These behind-the-scenes secrets are juicy

Barbara Walters has had one of the most fascinating careers of any media personality out there. She was a pioneer for women in news, and she interviewed just about every famous person around the table on The View, where she was an original host.

"We expected her, when she felt well, to talk about the procedure on the air as it was such an important aspect of her life and could hardly be kept secret — or so we thought," Walters wrote. "After the operation Star said she didn't want to become what she called a 'poster child' for the procedure and have to answer a lot of questions. I understood that, but it put us all in a terrible position. It meant we virtually had to lie for Star, especially when she said again and again on the air that her weight loss was due primarily to portion control and Pilates."

That's not the only drama that revolved around Jones. Walters also revealed that Jones used The View to promote businesses in order to get free services to her wedding to Al Reynolds, which is part of why she was cut from the show's hosting cast.